[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 193 (Monday, October 6, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 52152] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-26424] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Antitrust Division Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--IOPS.ORG Project Notice is hereby given that, on July 2, 1997, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Corporation For National Research Initiatives (``CNRI'') has filed written notifications on behalf of a Joint Venture between CNRI and participants known as the IOPS.ORG (``IOPS'') Project simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are CNRI, Reston, VA; ANS CO+RE Systems, Inc., Elmsford, NY; AT&T Corporation, Basking Ridge, NJ; BBN Corporation, Cambridge, MA; EarthLink Network, Inc., Pasadena, CA; GTE Intelligent Network Services Incorporated, Irving, TX; MCI Telecommunications, Washington, DC; NETCOM On-Line Communications Services, Inc., San Jose, CA; PSINet, Inc., Herndon, VA; Sprint Communications Company, L.P., Kansas City, MO; and UUNET Technologies, Inc., Fairfax, VA. The nature of the Project will be to promote, in the public interest, industry cooperation on the joint engineering efforts to help ensure an operational global Internet, by addressing issues that require coordination and information-sharing across and among Internet service providers, and to support engineering analysis, system simulation and testing, and interaction with other groups and organizations as appropriate for the accomplishment of its goal of improving the reliability and robustness of the Internet. Constance K. Robinson, Director of Operations, Antitrust Division. [FR Doc. 97-26424 Filed 10-3-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-11-M